Creative

Yes, you can request other parts by calling them.

Whats wrong with creative?

I'll tell you what, I'd shut the guy down also when he's legally incorrect.  I don't care what "the consumer" thinks about Creative.  The consumer has no right to break the law and make those choices for a company that has copywrite protection. You want to make a statement in this world about a product that you don't like, then don't buy it.  The consumer has more power in their ignorant hands than they realize at times. 

I have no vested interest in Creative other than I've purchased some of their products in the past and have their SC in my rig right now.  I've had zero issue with it an can't blame anything on Creative.  I have updated my driver once with this card since I have gotten it because I went online and researched.  It works wonderful with the latest update.  It just makes me sick to think that Joe Public has to defend the public from the corporate environment when there are procedures in place to make them accountable legally.

You don't like what Creative is doing?  Then stop buying their products and leave corporate justice up to the courts. The power in a democracy is the combined effort of its demographics too encourage change.  Of course, with the excellent leadership we've had in this country, it's a wonder we haven't seen mass revolution yet.

I'm done  

Edited by EdH63 - 31 Mar 2008 at 10:21pm

I agree with Ed that when it comes to making a move to protect your business, it's not a choice, it's a need. My understanding is that this person's drivers enabled Creative exclusive features on competitors' hardware. As much as I loathe the current monopolistic behavior of some of the larger manufacturers of computer hardware, the law *must* prevail. You cannot simply pick and choose which laws you like or when you would like to see them enforced. Intellectual property is still property, and the Law is intended to protect life, liberty, and property.

The only thing I will say, is no matter how loudly you may be thinking "I don't give a what the consumer thinks" you can't afford to behave in a way the creates that perception. Particularly not when you are selling a product that very, very few people actually "need". This is where Creative should rethink how they have approached this situation IMO. Sometimes, it isn't what you say or do, but how it's perceived. Image is something a business may have to spend years building, and it can be destroyed in a day.

That is part of what I read as well. The objection they officially raised, from what I could tell, is over functions that were enabled on competitor's products. I wish I could remember which tech site I read the article on.

Update:

You had a better grasp of this than I did Venture.

 I just read the first 30 of the two hundred and twenty pages of angry posts at Creative's site. The anger is definitely over Creative's lack of support for their previous generations of products. Whatever their official reasons may have been, no one cares.  Now, I at least understand the rage.

Whatever else their objections may have been, and whatever else their motivations may have been they did succeed in selling me completely on onboard audio.

Thx, maybe you should look into one of the ASUS audio cards Creative seems to hold in such contempt? They apparently will at least emulate every feature the Creative cards offer.


Edited by Tyler Lowe - 01 Apr 2008 at 1:34am